MARCH 28 Featured Poet: Talvikki Ansel
Talvikki Ansel is the author of the poetry collections My Shining Archipelago (Yale Series of Younger Poets Award), Jetty & other poems (Zoo Press), and Somewhere in Space (The Ohio State University Press / The Journal Award in Poetry). Her awards include a Lannan Foundation residency, and a Stegner Fellowship. She has been a writer-in-residence at the James Merrill House. Her poems have been published in Poetry, The Yale Review, FIELD, Colorado Review, and Hotel Amerika.
March Opening Voice: Steven Ostrowski
Steven Ostrowski is a widely-published and award-winning poet, fiction writer, painter and songwriter. Recently published are his first novel, The Highway of Spirit and Bone and a full-length book of poems, Life Field. In addition, he has published six chapbooks and a full-length collaboration of poems with his son, Ben, called Penultimate Human Constellation. His paintings can be found in, or as the cover art for, Lily Poetry Review, Stone Boat, The William and Mary Review, and many other literary art magazines. His website is www.stevenostrowski.org.
March Music - Sarah Mac
Hailing from the east coast and married to a deep love of storytelling, Sarah Mac weaves songs of love, loss and the human spirit that feel timeless and deeply personal. With a voice that blends natural strength and vulnerability, she paints vivid portraits of life’s highs and lows - drawing inspiration from an experience that seems equally familiar with deep sorrow and powerful joy. Whether performing on renowned stages or in the warmth of a living room, her lyrics capture the essence of everyday life—its quiet moments, its struggles, and its beauty. Known for her authenticity and heartfelt connection to her audience, she is carving out her place as an important voice in the New England singer-songwriter landscape.
April 25 Featured Poet: Taylor Mali
Taylor Mali is one of the most well-known poets to have emerged from the poetry slam movement and one of the original poets to appear on the HBO series “Def Poetry Jam.” A four-time National Poetry Slam champion, he is the author of four collections of poetry and a chapbook, The Whetting Stone, which won the 2017 Rattle Chapbook Prize. He is the author of the acclaimed nonfiction book, What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World. In April of 2012, Mali donated 12 inches of his hair to the American Cancer Society Mali after convincing 1,000 people to become teachers. He lives in Brooklyn where he curates the Page Meets Stage reading series at the Bowery Poetry Club.
April 25 Opening Voice - Youth Will Be Served
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May 30 Featured Poet - Martín Espada
Martín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist, and translator. His new book of poems, Jailbreak of Sparrows, is forthcoming from Knopf in 2025. His previous book, Floaters, won the National Book Award for Poetry and a Massachusetts Book Award. His poetry collections from W.W. Norton include Vivas to Those Who Have Failed (2016), The Trouble Ball (2011), The Republic of Poetry (2006), Alabanza (2003) and Imagine the Angels of Bread (1996). He is the editor of What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (2019). Espada has received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, the PEN/Revson Fellowship, a Letras Boricuas Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The title poem of his collection Alabanza, about 9/11, has been widely anthologized and performed. His book of essays and poems, Zapata’s Disciple (1998), was banned in Tucson as part of the Mexican-American Studies Program outlawed by the state of Arizona. A former tenant lawyer, Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
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